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3rd December 2007 - Link Blog

Datejs - A JavaScript Date Library. Building a date API around chaining—Date.today().next().thursday()—is a neat concept. I’d like to see that adapted for Python’s datetime library.

Posted 3rd December 2007 at 9:01 pm

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